Visitor Q And The Weekend

It's a Friday night and as usual I'm at home, instead of out painting the town red (or blue or whatever colour is in these days). I dunno, I've just been more of a homey type (not to be confused with Homer Simpson) plus I have to be at work by 8 tomorrow for a faculty workshop. There's a bunch of students out there who are in dire danger of being kicked out, and as usual yours truly will have to head the task force in identifying just what it is that's so difficult for these kids.

Professional responsibilities, and all that. I never did expect the previous entry on roads to resonate with so many of you out there, and I'd just like to say thanks for writing in. There's more where that came from but I'd hate to be first and foremost in the field of navelgazing (since there are some who think so) and there's only so much dark, deep quasi-intellectual woe to pass around.

So what does one do when it's a weekend, work (and this is the academic kind) is piling up and the old hormones are starting to act up again (no points for guessing WHICH hormones, people). Well, if you're a geek like me, you pursue geeky interests in the hope of conveniently forgetting what it is you're so horny about (oh I guess I just blew it, didn't I). Having just installed the Xbox Media Player I'm so tempted to torrent some pr0n and watch it on the telly, but it'd be too much work. So I dug into my backlog of unwatched DVDs and came up with something close to porn, but perhaps much worse:

Takashi Miike's Visitor Q.

I've said the same about Audition, Ichi and several other titles before, but I'm dead serious about this one. Stay away from it, unless you're really sure you know what you're getting yourself into. Like Salo (which I'll review properly someday) this little piece doesn't just unsettle you. It makes you quickly want to take your eyeballs out, wash them and then wash them again.

By now I figure some of you should be intrigued, so I'll give you guys a little taste of what to expect before the review comes up next week:

The movie opens with a question card: Have you ever done it with your dad?

The following several minutes involves a girl, a man, 2 cameras, and sex.

Come back next week, for the review. I'm still waiting for my eyeballs to clear.